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Was just thinking about how badly AEW have fucked up almost all their talent acquisitions. If this were any other promotion — WCW, TNA, you name it — they would be dragged over the coals for how badly they have fucked up.
* Wardlow was getting so over as MJF’s reluctant bodyguard. I knew turning him face was premature, but they have taken a guy who gave people Goldberg vibes and firmly planted him in the mid-card. He’s in a going nowhere feud with an old WWE guy who doesn’t want to be there over secondary belts no one cares about. This is like if Goldberg beat Hogan on Nitro and then decided he wanted to make the US Title his only thing.
* Bryan Danielson is still one of the best workers on the planet and basically universally beloved. They’ve presented him in such a way that it actually breaks people’s hearts enough that they tune out whenever he is on the television. It’s taken them longer to run Seattle than it took WCW to run Canada with Bret Hart.
* Miro is sitting at home with nothing to do. He’s draining more company resources than Nailz did in WCW. People just want to see the guy come in and wreck shit. Meltzer justifies this by saying Miro knocked back doing a job. Why are you getting him to lose? The last time you saw him, paying customers were seeing him victorious alongside Sting and Darby Allin. If they didn’t know better, they could make the case that Khan got them to plonk down cash and invest on someone he just pulled from them in a gotcha.
None of this is good. None of this is ok by any standards we used to have as fans. They get the simplest shit so fucking wrong. But we’re supposed to stand back and clap because they pay Chris Jericho a truckload of money to play politics. Fuck that.
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